1 Kings 1:5

1:5 Now Adonijah, son of David and Haggith, ¹  was promoting himself, ²  boasting, ³  “I will be king!” He managed to acquire ⁴  chariots and horsemen, as well as fifty men to serve as his royal guard. ⁵ 

1 Kings 7:6

7:6 He made a colonnade ⁶  75 feet ⁷  long and 45 feet ⁸  wide. There was a porch in front of this and pillars and a roof in front of the porch. ⁹ 

1 Kings 9:23

9:23 These men were also in charge of Solomon’s work projects; there were a total of 550 men who supervised the workers. ¹⁰ 

1 Kings 10:29

10:29 They paid 600 silver pieces for each chariot from Egypt and 150 silver pieces for each horse. They also sold chariots and horses to all the kings of the Hittites and to the kings of Syria. ¹¹ 

1 Kings 18:4

18:4 When Jezebel was killing ¹²  the Lord’s prophets, Obadiah took one hundred prophets and hid them in two caves in two groups of fifty. He also brought them food and water.)

1 Kings 18:22

18:22 Elijah said to them: ¹³  “I am the only prophet of the Lord who is left, but there are 450 prophets of Baal.

[1:5]  ¹ tn Heb “son of Haggith,” but since this formula usually designates the father (who in this case was David), the translation specifies that David was Adonijah’s father.

[1:5]  ² tn Heb “lifting himself up.”

[1:5]  ³ tn Heb “saying.”

[1:5]  ⁴ tn Or “he acquired for himself.”

[1:5]  ⁵ tn Heb “to run ahead of him.”

[7:6]  ⁶ tn Heb “a porch of pillars.”

[7:6]  ⁷ tn Heb “fifty cubits.”

[7:6]  ⁸ tn Heb “thirty cubits.”

[7:6]  ⁹ tn Heb “and a porch was in front of them (i.e., the aforementioned pillars) and pillars and a roof in front of them (i.e., the aforementioned pillars and porch).” The precise meaning of the term translated “roof” is uncertain; it occurs only here and in Ezek 41:25-26.

[9:23]  ¹¹ tn Heb “these [were] the officials of the governors who were over the work belonging to Solomon, five hundred fifty, the ones ruling over the people, the ones doing the work.”

[10:29]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “and a chariot went up and came out of Egypt for six hundred silver [pieces], and a horse for one hundred fifty, and in the same way to all the kings of the Hittites and to the kings of Aram by their hand they brought out.”

[18:4]  ²¹ tn Heb “cutting off.”

[18:22]  ²⁶ tn Heb “to the people.”